Marty challenger bounced off the ballot

Eugene Myrick, the political Little Engine That Could, couldn’t hold back the rampaging locomotive known as the Marty Markowitz for Borough President campaign Monday as he was booted off the ballot for lack of legitimate signatures.

During a Board of Elections hearing, an audit of the 9.928 petition signatures Myrick submitted showed that only 2,637 of the signatures were valid. The remainder were declared invalid after they were found to be from non-Brooklyn residents or non-registered Democrats.

“When I announced I was running, tons of people offered their assistance,” Myrick told the board. “What was I to do? Turn them down?”

Myrick also found it unfair that he had to defend himself against Connor.

“I’m a first-time candidate...I don’t know all the rules,” he said. “And here I am going up against the guy who wrote the rules,” he said, adding that he had one night to serve legal papers orders to five people in the Markowitz campaign to defend his case.

One of them was Markowitz himself, who, despite his high profile, couldn’t be located in time, Myrick alleged.

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